If you’re Uber and Lyft, you buy a labor law through the ballot initiative system that legalizes the payment of poverty wages.
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The Fast-Food Empire Strikes Back
Today on TAP: One day after sectoral bargaining is signed into California law, the industry announces a ballot measure to repeal it.
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It’s Biden vs. Newsom for the Title of Labor’s Best Friend
Today on TAP: Labor Day weekend sees them duking it out on the question of who’s more pro-union.
Posted inWorking in America
California Tries Something Novel: Enhancing Worker Power
The legislature enacts industry-wide bargaining in fast food—something new under the American sun.
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‘Pro-Life’: America’s Most Patently Absurd Misnomer
The relationship between anti-abortion states and concern for human life is certifiably inverse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Life in the Real Economy
Two new studies—one on poverty wages, one on the declining share of revenues going to workers—are at once authoritative and mind-boggling.
Posted inWorking in America
What Amazon Will Do Next. What Unions Must Do Next.
The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Democrats Need to Fix Rural Economies—and Get the Credit for It
Geographic inequality is one of the forces tearing our democracy apart, but it’s one that we can fix.
Posted inWorking in America
Why Union Membership Statistics Are Stupid
American workers are on the march—something the government isn’t measuring.
Posted inWorking in America
How to Stop Restaurant Workers From Quitting
Dumping the subminimum-wage standard ($2.13 an hour?!) they labor under would certainly help—and now may be more politically possible.